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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2018-10-04 11:05:14 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-10-04 11:25:56 +0200
commit9c2298aad355d8c1957df3015448fef333526934 (patch)
treecd4e41d0dddacb2b3e904d217fc8bf03b460d513 /kernel
parent4a465e3ebbc8004ce4f7f08f6022ee8315a94edf (diff)
downloadlinux-9c2298aad355d8c1957df3015448fef333526934.tar.bz2
sched/core: Fix comment regarding nr_iowait_cpu() and get_iowait_load()
The comment related to nr_iowait_cpu() and get_iowait_load() confuses cpufreq with cpuidle and is not very useful for this reason, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: e33a9bba85a8 "sched/core: move IO scheduling accounting from io_schedule_timeout() into scheduler" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3803514.xkx7zY50tF@aspire.rjw.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 56b3c1781276..fe0223121883 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2916,10 +2916,10 @@ unsigned long nr_iowait(void)
}
/*
- * Consumers of these two interfaces, like for example the cpufreq menu
- * governor are using nonsensical data. Boosting frequency for a CPU that has
- * IO-wait which might not even end up running the task when it does become
- * runnable.
+ * Consumers of these two interfaces, like for example the cpuidle menu
+ * governor, are using nonsensical data. Preferring shallow idle state selection
+ * for a CPU that has IO-wait which might not even end up running the task when
+ * it does become runnable.
*/
unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu)